Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faculty overruling of the CSL decision came after an impassioned plea by Biology professor Saul Slapikoff, who cited the CSL vote as an abridgement of the Tufts-JDL's constitutional right to freedom of speech...
Weiss said in his letter that he was withdrawing his plea in part because some faculty "detested everything I stand for," but only supported him on the basis of his First Amendment rights...
Mills, who will give the Harvard Oration, said yesterday his speech will be a "plea for moral engagement" Citing a "preoccupation with their careers." Mills explained that he will be asking his fellow students to take more interest in others' well-being...
...last week Bok said a personal plea to the University Treasurer from a Black South African leader played a role in the Corporation's decision. According to Bok, a man identified only as Dr. Motlana, a member of the Soweto Committee of 10, urged George Putnam '49 to approve a controversial 1979 Citibank loan...
...residual pride and growing self-hatred prevent him from putting euphemisms between himself and his experience. Raw sin is like a dose of salts, evil is a flail for self-punishment, and the law smells of deals, not ideals. Even his Roman Catholic soul can cop a plea: "He had his script worked out. Confession on his deathbed. Penance. Extreme unction. Two sacraments for the price of one. A perfect act of contrition. Not to mention a perfect way to hedge his bet in case he had backed the wrong horse...